plural of positive linear functional

(linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

plural of function object

(object-oriented programming) An object that encapsulates a function pointer (or equivalent).

(mathematics) The function that determines the sign of a real number, yielding -1 if negative, +1 if positive, or otherwise zero.

(logic) A function which assigns a truth value to every well-formed formula, which is identical to the model's interpretation function when applied to atomic propositions, and which otherwise assigns a truth value recursively depending on the formula's top logical connective and the truth values of the subformulae surrounding that logical connective.

(mathematics) Any function whose values remain bounded by some constant.

plural of linear function

(computer science) A mathematical function that can be computed using an abstract computation machine such as Turing machine.

(mathematics) A unary function that preserves the addition operation; a unary function f such that for any x and y: f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y).